23. Great unironic abstracts. Three hundred and forty students were presented with descriptions of 44 psychology courses and asked to rate their interest in taking each course. Student interest in taking quantitative vs non quantitative courses was very low; the mean interest in statistics courses was nearly 6 SDs below the mean interest in non quantitative courses. Maybe if more of them had taken statistics they would know what SDs are.

23. Some of the best reading on the Web is now the comments on Amazon. Here is an example. I liked the person who suggested it was an ideal gift for your Congressman.

#3: Note that the study is based on data collected in 1994. Which is about the same time I started having daughters. Which is also about the last time I voted for a Republican (not that I'm in love with the Demos). I realize that many Repubs do not agree with the idea that the state should coerce my daughters to carry their rapists babies to term (should either ever be pregnant from a rape), but why encourage the ones that do?

#28 What's up with the claim that humans make terrible drivers? Compared to what? Sure, one day driverless cars will rule the roads (which will be great), but until then, what drives a car better than a human? A dog? A fly?